Coastal Bend business journal 10.28.12

The city of Kingsville Tourism Department appointed Cynthia Martin as the Downtown & Volunteer Manager. She will join Bob Trescott and Judy Gonzalez in the newly formed Tourism Department.

Martin has a master's degree in historic preservation from the University of Texas at Austin and has experience in many aspects of historic preservation planning, implementation and marketing. She has been a member of the City's Historic Development Board for nearly a year and has been coordinating with Texas A&M University-Kingsville faculty on a complete resurvey, inventory and documentation of the city's historic buildings under a grant from the Texas Historical Commission.

Health system adds Cato to board

Christus Spohn Health System announced James "Jim" Cato has been elected to the board of directors of the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research, Washington D.C. Cato will continue to serve in his current role as chief nurse executive for the Christus Spohn Health System and interim vice president and chief nursing officer for Christus Health.

Cato has more than 30 years of health care experience, including nursing, nursing leadership, academia, hospital operations and clinical informatics and information systems.

Fallwell serves new hospital role

Registered nurse Nancy Fallwell has been promoted to director of Infection Prevention & Control at Driscoll Children's Hospital. Fallwell was formerly the interim director of Infection Prevention & Control and, was a nursing house supervisor at Driscoll. She has served in various nursing roles at Corpus Christi-area hospitals, the first as a nurse technician at Driscoll in 1989. Fallwell holds a master's degree in nursing and health care administration from the University of Phoenix and a bachelor's degree in nursing from the University of Texas at Tyler.

SBA growth capital program sets record

The U.S. Small Business Administration's Small Business Investment Company debenture program provided a record $2.95 billion to small businesses in fiscal year 2012, a 14 percent increase over last year's $2.59 billion and an 85 percent increase over 2010, also a record year.

The program was created in 1958 to stimulate the growth of America's small businesses by supplementing the long-term debt and private-equity capital available to them.